- In this next step, you'll see the real difference…between data sources, which we created earlier,…and external content types, and it's huge.…When I created these data sources,…I still needed to find a way to represent them…in my SharePoint site.…So, if I wanted to take a look, for example,…at book titles or weather forecast,…then we were creating site pages,…and we were adding web parts and customizing them.…But with my external content types, it's totally different.…One choice, if I go back and open up my content type,…is that I can create lists and form right here.…

There's a button that will do that.…But I don't even need to do that.…Let's slide back over to our SharePoint site.…Here in the Sandbox, I'm going to go to Site Contents,…and I'm going to add an app.…The app that I'm going to add is very specific.…It's the app for an external list.…What this does is, it allows me to choose…an external content type.…Remember that this is the products list…that I'm bringing in from AdventureWorks.…I'm going to either begin to type an external content type,…

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11/14/2014

Many businesses that use SharePoint also store data in other places: SQL databases, cloud storage sites, HR and accounting systems, inventories, and point-of-sale systems. Learn how to connect to, read, and even update information stored externally, in locations like these, and create rich, highly visual webpages with SharePoint Designer. Gini Courter shows how to manage data sources—whether they're databases, web services, or XML files—without any code, and use Web Parts to display the data. She also shows how to use Business Connectivity Services to integrate external data into your SharePoint site in a natural way, and create advanced views into your records with Business Data Web Parts.